Browne's Folly
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
30 Sep, 2019
Brief Extract: The proprietor, meanwhile, had adhered to the Royalist side and fled to England during the Revolution. The mansion was left under the care of Richard Derby (an ancestor of the present Derby family), who had a claim to the Browne proper
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Brief Extract: The proprietor, meanwhile, had adhered to the Royalist side and fled to England during the Revolution. The mansion was left under the care of Richard Derby (an ancestor of the present Derby family), who had a claim to the Browne property through his wife, but seems to have held the premises precisely as the refugee left them, for a long term of years, in the expectation of his eventual return. Less